Our new credenza, al last!!

We went back to Focal Wood Products in Nappanee yesterday and had our new credenza installed. We are pumped!!

 This was our original dinette which was falling apart. The cushions were replaced several years ago but it still wasn't comfortable.

 This is the original washer cabinet. One of the doors hooked the slide and was pretty much destroyed. We hated the top also.

 Here is the newly installed credenza. The wood matches the other cabinets in the rig.

 The doors are original, but the frame is new. The top is also new and matches everything else.

Each side has a pull-out laptop tray, small drawer, and file drawer. Lots more storage behind the doors in the center including an adjustable shelf. The table slides out to 35 inches without the 18 inch leaf stored inside. Plenty of room for four or five when extended all the way.
Next year we will replace the electronics cabinet under the TV and hopefully 2 new Lambright recliners. If the books sell well, new pilot and co-pilot seats as well.

Another week in Indiana

 
Here are our friends Kris and Bill Osborne who write the Seeing the USA blog. Kris has crafted a great gadget to fit on the back of the navigator's seat that holds lots of handy stuff. Woo Hoo!!! More storage.

 

As you can see, she has covered the chair with some felt material and attached a shoe organizer with elastic.

Pretty cool!!

 

We spent a few hours at the annual Shipshewana Craft Fair. Lots of Buggy only parking around here

Next we took a trip over to Focal Wood where our new credenza is being built.

 The wood pieces in front of the table are part of our order. We are also having a new front put on our washer/dryer and a new top.

We are busy getting everything ready for the dinette removal and the new furniture to be installed. More pics on Friday nite.

Shipshewana, IN

Half of the showroom at Lambright Comfort Chairs

What a great day we had today. Our friends and listeners Bill and Kris Osborne have come to visit with us here in Howe, IN.  We went to Lambrights Comfort Chairs to check out some chairs for the rig. Our Poang chairs have big foot stools and it takes up to much space. So, we are chair shopping again. Love the chairs but we will wait until next year to purchase them. This year the dinette gets changed out, from a booth type to a credenza. I can hardly wait. It will help us to get more organized and having Focalwood do the job is exciting. The Amish owner of Focalwood, Carlyle Lehman is a real craftsman. Nick and Terry Russell had work done in their rig and it is beautiful. Anyway, back to yesterday, we continued on to Shipshewana and went to Yoder’s marketplace. Fresh cheese, hormone free meats, and fried pies. Yummm. I bought bacon, cheese and popcorn. I love popcorn. So tonight I will be having great popcorn. We went on to The Blue Gate Restaurant for a wonderful lunch and John wanted to get a Carrot cake. I love looking around in shops and places like that. It’s easy not to buy things because I don’t have any more room to store anything. Living in the RV with the limited space makes it easy to say no to more “stuff”.  Although it is time to start thinking about Christmas presents for friends and family. There is a big craft sale this weekend at Shipshewana and we will go to that.  Bill and Kris treated us to a Amish buggy ride. WOW they are really first class. Comfortable seats, insulated inside and the turn signals and light switches are located over the drivers head. It was fun and the driver gave us a little history of the town. Have a great day Happy Camping.

This looks like the one!

Or maybe this one with electric recline.

Cool table

 

 

back to the 70's

This place had the best stuff!!

Molly gave us a great ride.

We visit Jim Thorpe, PA

We spent a great day earlier this week in Jim Thorpe, PA. The town is only 50 miles west of Stroudsburg but a century removed. Formerly known as Mauch Chunk,, it was a coal loading place on the Lehigh river. The Lehigh Valley Railroad started freight and passenger service in 1855 and the place was called the Switzerland of America and had many millionaires mansions. In 1954, The communities of East Mauch Chunk and Mauch Chunk were combined under the name of Jim Thorpe and the famous athletes remains were brought here from Oklahoma. Now it is a popular tourist attraction and the river is a great source of recreation.

 

Coming into town from the east

The memorial and grave are located just north of East Jim Thorpe

 

This river rafting activity was on the river side of the municipal parking lot. $5.00/day

 

This is the original train depot, now home to the Lehigh Gorge Railway which makes 1 hour trips up the gorge on weekends. We'll try to get time to do this later in the month.

 We took a walk up broadway and it got steeper and steeper

 

 The next several frames are all about the restorred victorian buildings in the town

 The original fire department

 

 City Hall

 These three pictures are the front of the prison at the top of Broadway

We had a great tour here. Local high school girls are the tour guides.

 There were 3 women's cells on the second floor

 Looking out from the inside of one of the dungeon cells

 Reproduction of the gallows where 7 of the infamous "Molly McGuires" were hung

 The 2 story cell block

 We plan to return to Jim Thorpe to tour some other areas of town and one of the millionaire's mansions.

Weather change for the better

Low to mid 70's for the foreseeable future here in the Pennsylvania Poconos!! Is summer all done? Probably not. We have only 30 days left here and then we start towards Indiana and our appointment with Focal Wood Llc to get a new dinette solution. First a stop at the Thousand Trails Hershey preserve and a quick (hopefully) stop at Cummins Coach Care in Harrisburg, PA. We saved money all summer by workamping to be able to afford these extra expenses.

Later this week we will visit Jim Thorpe, PA. It is only a 50 mile drive and has been recommended to us by many folks who live around here. It is in the heart of the anthracite coal mining country. There is even a mine in town with a tour. We'll see.

I'm hard at work on our next book to be titled "So, you want to be a workamper?" I hope to have it published by the end of the year. Pretty ambitious but I think we can do it. After that will come "What your RV dealer didn't tell you."